Windows 8 and Metro: The World Without Browser Plug-ins
Abandoning plug-ins will make browsers better and coding easier - Windows/.NET
Articles
Using Bluetooth
Trying to communicate with a remote device with no other familiar protocol? Bluetooth provides an easy answer with well-documented specs and straightforward programming APIs. - Mobile
Welcome to the Parallel Jungle!
Herb Sutter dives into the repercussions of parallel's reach from mobile devices, to the desktop, to clusters, and — at the highest level of granularity — to the cloud. This welter of different parallel implementations presents significant challenges for programming. The free lunch of sequential programming is well and truly over. - Parallel
Low-Cost, Low-Power Servers Begin Their Ascent
As the cloud is quickly demonstrating, small, seemingly underpowered servers are quite enough for most development tasks. Buying one of these low-cost, low-power units makes clear how much developer-friendlier they are than datacenter solutions - Tools
Developer's Reading List
The latest books off the press cover code readability, Java performance, hunting for and prying open security defects, game testing, architecture, and even OpenVMS. - Tools
Low-Power ARM-Based Build Server Delivers
Nvidia's low-power, low-cost, ARM-based Trim-Slice is easy to set up and run, and it delivers as a build server. - Tools
Booting an Intel Architecture System, Part II: Advanced Initialization
Once the processor is running and memory has been initialized, timers and devices must be started up and a memory map laid out. Only then, can the OS be loaded. - Design
Linked Lists Are, Like, So Last Century
Give up your sequential linked lists in favor of tree structures for all of your unordered data when processing that data in parallel. - Parallel
Language of the Month: JRuby
Ahead-of-time compilation, metaprogramming Java objects, real threads, and the ability to call Java directly from Ruby code are all ways in which JRuby improves on the standard Ruby distribution. - JVM Languages
Best of the Web
Triple Buffering as A Concurrency Mechanism
Triple Buffering is a way of passing data between a producer and a consumer running at different rates. It ensures that the consumer sees only complete data with minimal lag.
Embedding GDB Breakpoints in C Source Code
Have you ever wanted to embed GDB breakpoints in C source code? Something like this:
printf("Hello,\n");
EMBED_BREAKPOINT;
printf("world!\n");
Writing Kernel Exploits
Why attack the kernel? Because it has a huge attack surface with potential for very interesting bugs. This presentation (pdf) takes a code-level dive into recently reported Linux-kernel exploits.
Compiling the JavaScript Engines
With growing demand for out-of-browser JavaScript (e.g., server JavaScript), a good knowledge of JavaScript engines is becoming more important.
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February 13-16, Santa Clara, CA. Cloud Connect
February 26-29, San Francisco, CA. SPTechCon (Sharepoint Technology Conference)
March 5-6, London, UK. QCon London
March 5-9, San Francisco, CA. Game Developers Conference
March 24-28, San Jose, CA. CGO '12. 10th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization.
March 25-30, Potsdam, Germany. AOSD '12. Aspect-oriented Software Development.
March 26-29, Reston, VA. EclipseCon 2012
April 2-3, London, U.K. Moblie 360 Live
April 2-4, San Francisco, CA. O'Reilly Where Conference
April 10-12, Santa Clara, CA. Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo
May 7-11, St. Petersburg, FL. SEI Architecture Technology User Network (SATURN) Conference 2012
May 14-17, Bay Area, California. AnDevCon III (Android Developer Conference)
May 29-31, Fluent 2012: JavaScript and Beyond, San Francisco, CA.
June 4-6, Nashville, Tennessee.Magic Software Users Conference
June 11-14, Orlando, FL. Microsoft Tech-Ed
June 18-20, New York, NY. QCon New York
June 27-29, San Francisco, CA. Goole I/O Conference
July 16-20, Portland, OR. OSCON
September 23-25, St Louis, MO. StrangeLoop
September 30 - Oct 4, San Francisco, CA. JavaOne
October 22-24, San Francisco, CA. Windows Phone DevCon
October 24-25, New York City. The Strata Conference
November 7-9, San Francisco, CA. QCon
